Qualcomm’s (QCOM) annual shareholder meeting is scheduled for March 6, 2018. The annual meeting presents an opportunity for Qualcomm shareholders to have their say on how the company is run. On January 24, The European Union’s (EZU) antitrust agency fined Qualcomm ~$1.2 billion.

Highlighting the performance of the mainframe business in fiscal 4Q17, IBM stated, “we delivered 71% revenue growth at constant currency, and we had the largest shipped MIPS in any quarter in its history.” 4Q17 was the first full quarter for the next generation of its z system, the z14 mainframe, which was launched in July 2017. Thus, the mainframe product refresh cycle in 4Q17 helped the company to report revenue growth. It remains to be seen whether this performance can be maintained.

Earlier in the series, we discussed IBM’s (IBM) fiscal 4Q17 results, which marked the first time that the company reported revenue growth after 22 straight quarters of revenue decline. Europe (EFA), the Middle East, and Africa posted $7.2 billion, while Asia-Pacific posted ~$4.5 billion. While the Americas region posted 3% growth in its revenues, Europe and Asia-Pacific posted a decline of 1% and 2%, respectively.

At the time of announcing that it was borrowing $2.5 billion through the issuance of notes to public investors, T-Mobile (TMUS) also included a piece of information to the effect that it was undertaking a separate notes issuance transaction with its parent company, Deutsche Telekom (or DT). Under the deal with DT, T-Mobile is set to receive a $2.5 billion cash injection in exchange for notes maturing between 2026 and 2028. The note issuance transaction between T-Mobile and DT is structured in a private placement format and is expected to close by the end of April.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Waymo is in the process of launching a ride-hailing service to take on Uber and Lyft. Ford Motor Company (F) and General Motors (GM) have also signaled their intent to enter the ride-hailing market with driverless taxis. For example, when exactly Waymo’s driverless taxi service will launch remains unknown.

In the previous part of this series, we analyzed the performance of the US market (SPX-INDEX) (SPY). Although the global equity market had the best start to a new year that it has seen since 1988, investors should be cautious, according to Pimco. The MSCI All-Country World Index (ACWI), which tracks the performance of the global market, rose 4.8% between January 2, 2018, and January 18, 2018.